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 PAROCHIAL COUNTRY SCHOOLS. 747 unilcr the caves of the roof and the pediments. Frame and iix pole-plates under the rafters, returiied in the pediments; wall-plates throughout under principals and joists, &c., and fix templates under girders 3 feet long, 9 inches by 5 inches; the wall- plates and pole-plates, purlins, girders, and chain bond, to be in one lengtli each, without laps. Frame and fix two floors of joists for girls' and l)oys' school, and three floors of joists for dwelling-rooms, &c., all carefully strutted and trimmed for flues, slal), stair- cases, &c. ; and frame and fix ceiling joists for attics to the roof, and in the kitchen. Plane on three sides, and chamfer the edges of the two girders over the boys' school, and sup- port the girders with four (3 inches and a half in diameter) cast-iron columns, with 1^-inch cajjs and bases, 6 inches and a half square, let into 6-ineli York bases on piers. Frame and fix quarter partitions on the one pair and the two pair floors of the house, with heads and sills, principals, quarters, door-heads, puncheons, and horizontal braces, let in flush, &c. Provide and fix all necessary lintels, wood bricks, centring to apertures, templates, blocks, fillets, wedges, angle beads, &c., and feather-edge pieces to trimmers, and fillets, &c. generally, for plasterers. Provide and fix oak wrought octagon posts in the west front, 3 feet high out of ground, 6 inches in diameter, and large buts to ditto, 3 feet underground charred, and oak wrought arris rail framed into ditto, feet long, 4 inches by 4 inches, and dig and ram holes for ditto : the boards to be prepared and stacked (horsed) by the 1st of September, 1 585. Joiiier. Floors. Lay 1 inch and a half wrought yellow straight joint batten floors scribed to the brickwork, on the whole of ground floors, and in the girls' school- room. Lay inch deal straight joint floors on the one pair and two pair in the master's house, bordered to slabs. — Skirtings. Fix j-inch deal skirting, 4 inches and a half wide, blocked (small pieces of wood fixed at the back of the skirting, to keep it a little distant from the brickwork or the partition), to rooms on the two pair, and to all the closets, &c., on the two pair and one pair, and inch deal quirk ogee bead skirting, 7 inches wide, with narrow gi-ounds and fillet, in the rooms of the one pair, staircases, and in the committee- room. Fix narrow grounds, and moulded chair rail, round the walls of the committee- room, 6 mches in girth. — Windows. Frame and fix in the window openings eighteen fir wrought and framed frames, 6 inches by 3 inches ; muntins, 6 inches by 2 inches and a half ; heads, 6 inches by 4 inches, lined outside with ^-inch deal, scribed and splayed. Put oak wrought framed and weathered sills, 7 inches by 4 inches ; 2-inch deal splayed bar sashes, the side sashes fixed, and the centre sash hung on hardened steel centres, with brass pivots, &c. Put proper beads inside and out, and patent lines, brass pulleys, and hooks, &c. Fix in the two pair, at the east end, a solid frame, sUl, sashes, &c., hung as above, with cir- cular head. Fix a large solid Venetian frame (a fraine in three divisions, the two side divisions being narrower than the centre one), with sill, muntms, sashes, &c., with circular head, &c., at west end of boys' school. Fix in two openings in the one pair, and in one opening in the kitchen, deal-cased frames, oak sunk and weathered sills, 2-inch deal ovolo sashes, double hung, brass pulleys, patent lines, and iron weights. The Venetian window in the one pair sitting-room to be hung with lines and weights to the centre part, as above. Fix to the circular window in the two pair, to the upper part of the window in the bed-room, to the window in the kitchen, and to the window in the committee-room, inch deal staff beaded linings, and 1 inch and a quarter wide rounded deal window boards. Yix to the three other windows on the one pair, inch deal staflT beaded and tongued linings, 1 inch and a quarter square framed window backs, and tongued cappings. Fix one brass patent sash fastening to each window. Fix on the roof over the staircase a 2-inch deal ovolo bar skylight, made to open with a quadrant fastening, hinges, &c. Fix 1 inch and a quarter wrought, beaded, and tongued Imings, round the opening, and a narrow gutter at the back. Fix in the circular opening, or bull's-eye, at the west end, a fir wrought framed rabbeted and beaded circular frame, 4 inches by 4 inches ; and fix in ditto eight tiers of 1 4-inch deal lufFer-boards, wrought, splayed, and fixed on splayed fillets. Form a segment head for the plasterers in the committee-room to the window. Plane the face of the plate through the east window, and fix a |-inch deal soffit to ditto. — Doors. All tiie doors to be put together ready for wedging up by September 1st. Fix in the three openings on the two pair floor, the three openings on the one pair floor, and also in the two openings on the ground floor, 1 inch and a quarter double-rabbeted and double-beaded linings ; those for the folding doors to be framed and moulded, with dovetailed rails for ditto, and inch framed gi-ounds and moulding round on both sides, and hang seven 2-inch deal four-panel square-framed doors, with S^-inch Tought butt hinges and screws; and fix one 7-inch brass knob best three-bolt lock on each door ; and hang in the other door- way in the committee-room, 2-inch deal four-panel each flush folding doors, with three pair of 5-inch wrought butts. One 7-inch lock like the last mentioned, one 1 2-inch and one 3 feet I inch iron rod barrel bolt, with strong iron plates ; and cover the doors with strong best green drugget on both sides, with gilt nails and tape, to form panels on ditto. Frame and fix to the entrance in the girls' school, 2-inch deal flush and square framing,